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Vicious infants : dangerous childhoods in antebellum U.S. literature /

"Childhood as scholars often recognize it-innocent, vulnerable, and above all, precious-is anchored in the cultural imagination of the early nineteenth-century United States, when an attitude of child worship drove sentimental politics and literature. But, not all childhoods were defined by lov...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soderberg, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.
Colección:Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bound Children: Sidestepping the Social Contract in Apprenticeship Literature
  • The Incorrigible Child: Juvenile Delinquency and the Fearful Rise of the Child Self
  • Prodigious Births: Black Infancy, Antebellum Medicine, and the Racialization of Heredity
  • Too Many Children: U.S. Malthusianism, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Novel-Ending Births
  • Conclusion.